Red Knots - Meet Rory
 
About Me  Names Calidris canutus Red Knot Rory Description I’m about 10’’ one of the biggest of the “peeps.” I have a relatively short, straight bill tapering to tip. My legs are short and thick. My head and breast are reddish in breeding plumage, gray the rest of the year. I weigh 100 grams and I double my weight during my stopover here to 200 grams! Our Photo Albums  Traveling with friends, stopping over Stone Harbor Point.  At my summer home with the kids in the Arctic My Favorite Foods  Horseshoe Crabs Eggs Seeds of Sedges Grass Shoots Beetles Worms Grasshoppers Links  www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensp/pdf/end-thrtened/redknot.pdf www.wcs.org/international/northamerica/knotandcra www.wetlandsinstitute.orghttp://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensp/pdf/end-thrtened/redknot.pdfhttp://www.wcs.org/international/northamerica/knotandcrahttp://www.wetlandsinstitute.orgshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2
 
Its All About Me! Hi, my name is Rory and I love to travel! I raised my family in the Arctic during the summer months. I’m just stopping over on my way to my winter home, Tierra del Fuego in southern South America, that’s 9,300 miles one way or about 20,000 miles a year! Not bad for a little bird! The Delaware Bay area is the traditional stop over point for 90% of us! We fatten up on Horseshoe Crab eggs to fuel us for the long journey, some of us like the Point better! Within the Arctic Circle I’ll find a mate, and she’ll lay eggs. To get this started, I’ll performs my courtship ritual, I’ll will fly up into the air, start singing, gliding around a bit and then I’ll land with my wings pointed up. This way cool and she’ll be very impressed! My mate will lay four eggs in a depression in the Arctic earth. We lined our nest with lichen so it would be soft and warm. My mate is great with the eggs and spends as much time with them as I do. Very enlightened! Our chicks hatch in about three weeks and they are ready to be on their own in another three weeks. In 2005 20,000 Red Knots were observed roosting at the point, in 2006 10,000 were roosting at Champagne Island. My cousin was ‘banded” in May of 1987 while stopping over on the Delaware Bay. In May of 2000, thirteen years later, he had flown about 242, 350 miles, a distance farther than from the earth to the moon! Rory I’m an arctic nester!
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